to liquidate
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7.3
- verb
- /ˈlɪkwɪˌdeɪt/
- Specialized
:
liquidar
- To pay off their outstanding debts, the company decided to liquidate all of its assets.
- liquidate assets
- liquidating a company
And this is because you're liquidating to try to meet your own debts.
- And this is because you're liquidating to try to meet your own debts.
- His wife, my wife liquidated her retirement fund.
- And if the stock tanks, the bank that gave the loan can liquidate the shares right away.
- And so it's almost going to cause people to have to liquidate to pay this tax.
- But what we've been seeing is a lot of people liquidating a lot of their their collections.
- I mean, these are these are assets that can be liquidated.
- And when we saw it coming, we literally liquidated here just like we're out, we're out, we're done.
- There's never been Imagine today the federal government decides to liquidate the property of Silicon Valley.
- We are going to authorize a company called Alvarez and a Marcel to liquidate Evergrand's assets.
- You are required to liquidate those assets on a schedule in order to pay those taxes.
- The bad thing is you don't have your Bitcoin and you actually get a tax bill on that Bitcoin being liquidated by the lender.
- Booming to me means there's people out there that are in an unfortunate position where they need to liquidate their car.
- You have to liquidate something in order to get that money, which would literally just grind everything to a halt.
- I would have never guessed that you would liquidate physical gold to do.
- They wouldn't allow wages to go down and debt be liquidated.
- And so for me I'm like, you know, the idea is you, you fully self liquidate day one.
Examples
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In 1951, the company was liquidated due to the establishment of an effective national highway network.
Academic text (2009) -
Between 1942 and 1947, all corporate landholdings were liquidated in the study area.
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And so it's almost going to cause people to have to liquidate to pay this tax.
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And he said you never get prices like this, that you could just liquidate and and make that trade quickly either in or out.
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You are required to liquidate those assets on a schedule in order to pay those taxes.
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I need you to start liquidating everything.
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Well, now they're saying they can liquidate your assets.
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We liquidated our assets, cut every piece of fat while the banks on Wall Street got rich.
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First on the agenda is liquidating your assets.
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The corporation was allowed to be privatized, and its assets were eventually liquidated.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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3.5
To quickly get rid of things by offering them at low prices
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7.5
Sell off an asset or part of a business
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4.3
Sell all remaining stock at low prices to end a business
To sell all goods and things you own to get cash
To sell investments to get cash
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Etymology
Liquidate comes from the Latin word liquidus meaning 'fluid' or 'to melt', so to liquidate assets is to 'make them liquid' — that is, turn property into cash to pay debts.